Discretion advised: youtu.be/YcxpGKctZMs?... (Source: CBS Evening News via YouTube)

2002 - Andre McCollins, a teenager at the time, was shocked 31 times while strapped to a board over a period of 7 hours, first because he did not want to take his coat off, and then 30 times for screaming because he was being shocked. There’s unfortunately video of this, it’s disturbing

- a further 56 times in 5 hours before staff called for an ambulance.
2007 - a hoax phone call from a former resident impersonating a supervisor claiming two residents had misbehaved that day resulted in both residents being shocked, one 29 times and one 77 (www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...)

1987 - Abigail Gibson, 29, has a heart attack and dies two days later
1990 - Linda Cornelison, 19, dies from complications related to a ruptured bowel. She had been on a “contingent food” program at the centre, where food is withheld as a punishment. While she was in pain, she was punished -

Major incidents at the centre include:
1985 - Vincent Milletich, 22 died from asphyxiation after having an epileptic seizure while wearing a “white noise emitting sensory deprivation helmet” as a punishment for making noises. He had a history of seizures

There were reports of physical and mental abuse starting in 1979, but the state of Massachusetts Office for Children (OFC) decided they should be allowed to do things like spray ammonia near them, spankings, “muscle squeezes”, pinches, and cold showers (source: archive.org/details/sim_...)

1) The Judge Rotenberg Centre (JRC) is an institution in Massachusetts. They use a device called a graduated electronic decelerator (GED) to shock residents who have developmental disorders like autism as “behavioural modification tool”

I am convinced that, in the same way the children yearn for the mines, all boyfriends yearn for the fish.

Mine does this too. Except it was early game and he was raking in cash for me to spend, so I definitely did not mind

cat pic for cat pic? I’ll go first